Kindergarteners as Experts - A video that explains how Kindergarten teachers paired their students with a 6th grade partner in order to research a particular bird species. What is powerful here is the way that a standardized "project board" format enabled the Kindergarten children to successfully share and present their research KWL Chart (Modified)
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A
ABC Boxes
ABC Brainstorm
ABC Summary
Academic Language (Focus on general academic language that transfers across disciplines)
Acrostic
Activate Prior Knowledge
Affinity Diagram (Example)
Analogize
Anticipation Guide
Antonyms
Annotate
Appraising Change Worksheet
Assemble Cut-up Summaries
B
Brainstorm (Padlet, Primary Pad, Verso)
C
Categorize
Cause and Effect Worksheet
Character Comparisons/Maps
Chart
Checklists
Checklist Retelling
Choose Your Own Reading Activity
Closure Activities
Cloze Passages
Cognates
Collaboration (Seven Norms)
Collaboration Toolkit
Collaborative Inquiry Template
Common Core Sentence Frames
Compare & Contrast (Elementary)
Compare & Contrast Key Words
Comparison Graphic Organizer
Concept Definition Map
Concept Sort (List, Group, & Label)
Contextual Inquiry
Conversation Circle Rubric (by Amy Leonard)
D
Decision Making Worksheet
Describe & Draw
Dramatize
Draw or Illustrate Key Passages of Text
E
Effective Questioning & Classroom Talk (a Toolkit)
Embedded Reading
Exit Tickets
Expository Text Retelling Rubric
F
Fishbowl
Flask
Foldables
Four A's Protocol
Four Corners
Frayer Model
G
Games (Charades, Detective, M&Ms, Taboo (Cards), Tell Me About, $10,000 Pyramid)
Gimme 5
Gouin Series
Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers (especially good for guiding cognition - from Daily Teaching Tools)
Graphic Organizers (in different target languages, organized by instructional reading & writing tasks)
Group Norms
Group Roles (Tent Cards)
H
Highlight
Highlight specific grammatical features
Highlight words they KNOW
Human Graphing (Ex 1, Ex 2)
I
Idea Rating Sheet/Opinionnaire
Inquiry Chart
Inside/Outside Circles
Interview Preparation
Interview the Text
Interview Template
Invent Subtitles
J
Jigsaw (Read & Retell)
Journals (Dialectical, Double-entry)
K
Kindergarteners as Experts - A video that explains how Kindergarten teachers paired their students with a 6th grade partner in order to research a particular bird species. What is powerful here is the way that a standardized "project board" format enabled the Kindergarten children to successfully share and present their research
KWL Chart (Modified)
L
Language Ladders
Lesson Closure Frame
Literature Circle Thinking Hats
M
Magic Box
Making Inferences
Map
Map the Story
Match (paragraphs to titles or main ideas, pictures to text, words to synonyms or antonyms)
Metacognitive Activities
Mind Map
Mystery Picture
N
Narrative Story Retelling Checklist
Non-fiction Retelling Self-assessment Sheet (elementary)
O
Open Compare/Contrast
Opinion/Proof
Order Scrambled Paragraphs
P
Paraphrase
Pattern Puzzles
PearDeck
Predictions (First Lines, Possible Sentences, With Pictures)
Prefixes
Problem-solving Tasks
Process Sheets
Protocols
Protocols from Expeditionary Learning
Q
Quality Work Protocol - Templates on pp. 6-10
Question Answer Response (QAR)
Questioning
R
Read an Easier Text on Same Topic First
Read and Retell
Reader Response (Taxonomy of Reflection)
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading Response Choice Boards
Reciprocal Strategies Wksheet
Reciprocal/Power Teaching
Reflect or Self-assess (I can . . . )
Respond to a Quote (Essay)
Responding to Non-fiction Template
Role Plays
Roll a Topic
Roll and Retell (Example 2) (Rubric)
S
Save the Last Word for Me
Say Something (Sentence Stems)
Scavenger Hunt (Another ex.)
Selective Underlining
Self-assessments (I can . . . )
Semantic Feature Analysis
Sentence Frames
Sentence Starters for Reading Response
Sequence (Events, from the text, objects, pictures, sentences, or paragraphs)
Show & Tell
Signal Cards (May use other content)
Signature Searches
Six Types of Socratic Questions
Snowballs
Sort (objects, pictures, or sentences)
Sound Effects Read Aloud Activity
SQ4R
Stand When You Hear...
Story Boards (Elementary version; Online Storyboard Creator)
Story Maps (Online StoryMap Creator)
Story Pyramid
Story Squares
Strategies for Structuring Discussions
Subtitles
Suffixes
Sum It Up (Instructions)
Surveys or Questionnaires
Synonyms
T
T-chart
Talking Chips
Templates (Foldables, Pop-up Cards, Scientific Writing Scaffolds, Smoosh Books, Videos)
Text Rendering Protocol
Text Structures
Thesis/Proof
Think Aloud
Think Alouds
Think-Pair-Share
Thinking Routines
Three-minute Pause
Three, Two, One
Total Physical Response (TPR)
Tricider
U
V
Venn Diagram (2, 3, with summary) (Example 2) (Example 3)
Vocabulary Graphic Organizers
Vocabulary Word Map (Alt. Version)
W
Web
Weighted Pros and Cons
Word Banks
Word Families
Word Roots
Word Sorts
Word Walls (Editable Word Wall Templates)
Write True/False Statements
X
Y
Z
Activity Structures
Affinity Diagram (Example)
Carrousel Walk
Four A's Protocol
Four Corners
Grab-a-Word
Human Graphing (Ex 1, Ex 2)
Inside/Outside Circles
Jigsaw
Learning Centers
Mixers
Musical Chairs
Panel of Experts
Popcorn
Reciprocal/Power Teaching
Role Plays
Scavenger Hunt (Another ex.)
Show & Tell
Signature Searches
Stand When You Hear...
Strategies for Structuring Discussions
Think-Pair-Share
Pedagogical Helps
Signal(s) for Attention
Tech Tools
(Categorized by Function)Brainstorming
Padlet or Popplet
TitanPad
Tricider
Creating Products
Canva,Infogr.am, Venngage
Edublogs
Glogster or Mixbook
Issuu
Letterpop
MakeMyNewspaper
Motivator
SimplebookletorSmore
Storybird
StoryboardThat
Timetoast or Capzles
ToonDoo
Weebly, Wix, Wikispaces
Gathering & Analyzing Info.
BlendSpace or Wikispaces
Gliffy orMindomo
Google Formsor Wufoo
PollEverywhere or Survey Monkey
Thinglink
Interviewing
Appear.in
Audacity or Vocaroo
ChatWing
Google Hangouts or Skype
Voicethreador Voki